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14.Nov.18, 07:13 PM
How fascinating. Verec couldn’t say he had expected that request. And truly, he didn’t hate it as much as R’nya seemed to think he would. Though he certainly wasn’t going to let the Weyrleader learn that; had to keep the man on his toes, after all. Get as much out of the dragonriders as he could for as little as he could manage.
He didn’t bother asking R’nya what he was supposed to get out of it. That was rather obvious; if dragonriders had Healing education, he’d be able to send fewer Healers to the Weyrs. Still a few, certainly, because if the Weyrfolk were only being trained to Junior Journeyman standard they’d still need some Senior Journeymen and Masters available, but it would decrease the number of Junior Journeymen he'd need to send. Verec had already instituted a rule that Healers attending at Hatchings had to be at least thirty turns old, which would hopefully decrease Impressions, but maulings were still a risk. Which R’nya was so graciously offering to pay for. But R’nya was only one Weyrleader, and the offer only applied to Hatchings at his own Weyr, which was only perhaps one third of the total Hatchings. Not a perfect situation, but better than nothing, Verec supposed. And, unless Verec was very much mistaken, and he rarely was, goldriders were all women. Which meant R’nya wanted both women and men to get Healer educations. Interesting.
“Tell me, Weyrleader, why I should train your girls when we barely train our own?” Verec asked as he put a few thoughts down on his paper in shorthand, so R’nya couldn’t read them. Plenty of the women at the Hall picked up on things and could assist in nursing easily enough, but few sat in on classes beyond the introductory classes for Junior Apprentices. There had been women Healers — Verec had even met a few — but he only knew one who reached Junior Journeyman like R’nya wanted his girls to. And really, what was the point in not giving them the rank if they had the education. Politics? Useless waste of time and energy. Women didn’t generally get the ranks and Knots because they were rarely officially trained, even if they gained a good deal of the knowledge. You got the rank if you received the proper training, that’s how it worked. R’nya was asking for them to be officially trained, which meant they were eligible for rank. Perhaps Verec would have to create a new sub-discipline of WeyrHealer to accommodate the idea. It made sense to give the Healer Weyrfolk, if this plan resulted in any, which remained to be seen, some sort of title so they could be more easily identified and organized, even if it wasn’t a proper Healer rank.
Verec had already decided he would train the Weyrfolk — some of them, anyway — but waiting wanted to hear R’nya’s answer before saying anything. He wanted to get a better read of what R’nya wanted out of this, beyond the obvious reduced reliance on the Healer Hall. And even then, he would be setting conditions of his own on this arrangement that the Weyrleader had better agree to if he truly wanted Healer-trained Weyrfolk.
He didn’t bother asking R’nya what he was supposed to get out of it. That was rather obvious; if dragonriders had Healing education, he’d be able to send fewer Healers to the Weyrs. Still a few, certainly, because if the Weyrfolk were only being trained to Junior Journeyman standard they’d still need some Senior Journeymen and Masters available, but it would decrease the number of Junior Journeymen he'd need to send. Verec had already instituted a rule that Healers attending at Hatchings had to be at least thirty turns old, which would hopefully decrease Impressions, but maulings were still a risk. Which R’nya was so graciously offering to pay for. But R’nya was only one Weyrleader, and the offer only applied to Hatchings at his own Weyr, which was only perhaps one third of the total Hatchings. Not a perfect situation, but better than nothing, Verec supposed. And, unless Verec was very much mistaken, and he rarely was, goldriders were all women. Which meant R’nya wanted both women and men to get Healer educations. Interesting.
“Tell me, Weyrleader, why I should train your girls when we barely train our own?” Verec asked as he put a few thoughts down on his paper in shorthand, so R’nya couldn’t read them. Plenty of the women at the Hall picked up on things and could assist in nursing easily enough, but few sat in on classes beyond the introductory classes for Junior Apprentices. There had been women Healers — Verec had even met a few — but he only knew one who reached Junior Journeyman like R’nya wanted his girls to. And really, what was the point in not giving them the rank if they had the education. Politics? Useless waste of time and energy. Women didn’t generally get the ranks and Knots because they were rarely officially trained, even if they gained a good deal of the knowledge. You got the rank if you received the proper training, that’s how it worked. R’nya was asking for them to be officially trained, which meant they were eligible for rank. Perhaps Verec would have to create a new sub-discipline of WeyrHealer to accommodate the idea. It made sense to give the Healer Weyrfolk, if this plan resulted in any, which remained to be seen, some sort of title so they could be more easily identified and organized, even if it wasn’t a proper Healer rank.
Verec had already decided he would train the Weyrfolk — some of them, anyway — but waiting wanted to hear R’nya’s answer before saying anything. He wanted to get a better read of what R’nya wanted out of this, beyond the obvious reduced reliance on the Healer Hall. And even then, he would be setting conditions of his own on this arrangement that the Weyrleader had better agree to if he truly wanted Healer-trained Weyrfolk.
